Talk:Emily Gravett

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{{Authority control}} in the article footer links LC and other catalog data.

2005 and 2008 winners at Greenaway Medal Living Archive (2007?). CILIP.

--P64 (talk) 17:11, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2005/2006 and 2008 CILIP press releases.

The article cites the p.r. that announce the two Medals, but doesn't yet use any background information they provide. In both cases there are longer "Background" releases too. --P64 (talk) 15:58, 2 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have added three more CILIP references to the article of which "Press Desk" is a directory from 2002 to date. --P64 (talk) 20:50, 14 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Five months later, all the CILIP references are in the article and all used substantially. -P64 P64 (talk)

The Guardian coverage of Emily Gravett index

--P64 (talk) 01:19, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That Guardian index now covers 16 items including four "Gallery" with 34 pictures and at least four articles based on interviews (as well as several short book reviews). The four:

[ref name=pauli] "Kids' stuff: ... She talks to Michelle Pauli about her unorthodox route into children's literature" 20 October 2005 [1]
[ref name=rabinovitch] "Author of the month: ... She talks to Dina Rabinovitch about her latest book, Orange Pear Apple Bear" 27 February 2006 [2]
[ref name=higgins] "Award-winning book illustrator reveals her secret: rat pee" 26 June 2008 [3]
[ref name=carey] "With thanks to my daughter's pet rats ...: Joanna Carey meets this year's winner of the Kate Greenaway medal, Emily Gravett" 27 June 2008 [4]

Momentarily only one is in the article [higgins] but session in progress. --P64 (talk) 20:29, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Greenaway longlists[edit]

The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal longlists, so-called in many of our articles, are simply lists of all books nominated (usually about 40 and "we are still checking the eligibility of these titles")[5]. So I have reworded one "Awards" listing to say that Meerkat Mail was nominated for the medal and I doubt that is notable for someone with several greater recognitions. --P64 (talk) 23:21, 18 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Biography (personal)[edit]

Previously the personal biography was the lead sentence alone, "Emily Gravett is a British author and illustrator of children's books who lives in Brighton, England with her partner Mik, a plumber, and a daughter who is still in school."

I have replaced this using CILIP press releases as sources. One tidbit has been deleted in effect --the identification of Mik as a plumber-- because these sources do not support it.

The biographical blurb at her panmacmillan website ("About Me" at emilygravett.com) also calls him simply "partner Mik". Nothing in the blurb shows it to be more recent than 2007, which is the copyright date for the illustrations; that's prior to the latest CILIP press release that is also much longer, so I have ignored the blurb as a source.

--P64 (talk) 03:00, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Twenty hours later I have much expanded this biography. The underscore remains true bottom line. --P64 (talk) 21:05, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Official website[edit]

The so-called {{official website}} hosted by publisher MacMillan, using domain name emilygravett.com, is now dead. I recovered the earliest 2011 copy at Internet Archive, after finding it dead at the earliest 2012 and earliest 2013 dates. As it is not currently official I replaced that template with a plain link (emilygravett.com). --P64 (talk) 17:35, 8 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]